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A Mitotic Oscillator with a Strange Attractor and Distributions of Cell Cycle Times

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Nonlinear Oscillations in Biology and Chemistry

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Biomathematics ((LNBM,volume 66))

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The concept of the existence of the cell cycle appeared shortly after the advent of light microscopy in the last century when natural scientists first described the intranuclear events involved in mitosis and cytokinesis. It was not long before significant intercellular variation in the cell generation time (the elapsed time between cell birth and the production of two daughter cells, also called the intermitotic time) was described in a variety of cell types.

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  1. Department of Physiology, McGill University, 3655 Drummond, Montreal, Quebec, H3G 1Y6, Canada

    Michael C. Mackey, Martin Santavy & Pavla Selepova

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Mackey, M.C., Santavy, M., Selepova, P. (1986). A Mitotic Oscillator with a Strange Attractor and Distributions of Cell Cycle Times. In: Othmer, H.G. (eds) Nonlinear Oscillations in Biology and Chemistry. Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, vol 66. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-93318-9_3

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